Quote

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

Adam Duritz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
Goes
Success
Away
Young
Peer
Music
Peers
Come
Group
Play
Scene
People
Groups

More quotes by Adam Duritz

Image
You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
Adam Duritz
Image
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.
Adam Duritz
Image
For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
Adam Duritz
Image
I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.
Adam Duritz
Image
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
Adam Duritz
Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.
Adam Duritz
Image
Time and time again I can't please myself.
Adam Duritz
Image
If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.
Adam Duritz
Image
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
Adam Duritz
Image
You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.
Adam Duritz
Image
It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
Adam Duritz
Image
I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.
Adam Duritz
Image
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
Adam Duritz
Image
I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
Adam Duritz
Image
My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
Adam Duritz
Image
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
Adam Duritz
Image
All my songs are where I am.
Adam Duritz
Image
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
Adam Duritz
Image
I've been playing music most of my life.
Adam Duritz
Image
You aren't really writing about what you did you're writing about how you feel.
Adam Duritz